Camden star Joyce Edwards has had fairly the highschool profession. From profitable back-to-back state championships and committing to the South Carolina Gamecocks, the No. 2 ranked senior within the nation lately added one other accolade to her resume: she’s now this yr’s 2023-24 Gatorade Nationwide Women Basketball Participant.
The distinguished honor, which was introduced on Thursday, was offered to her by two-time WNBA All-Star and Dallas Wings ahead Satou Sabally, who shocked her in Camden HS’s gymnasium alongside her mother and father, teammates and her coach, Natalie Funderburk, who received Gatorade South Carolina Women Basketball Participant of the 12 months in ’92.
“I’m simply honored and grateful simply to be able,” Edwards advised WSLAM’s Madison Firle. “I imply, even to be thought of for this title is an achievement in itself. However for Gatorade to contemplate me the very best women basketball participant in my class is it’s simply loopy. I’ve no phrases for it. I’m simply joyful that different individuals see the work that I’ve put into the sport.”
Edwards is a standout ahead who can knock down pictures and put up huge time numbers. As she will get prepared for the subsequent degree, stars like Sabally already can inform her future is vivid:
“She’s gonna make an affect on girls’s basketball, inspiring the subsequent era and actually, you realize, giving younger girls [something to look up to],” Sabally says, later including: “We at all times take a look at stats, however South Carolina clearly has a profitable tradition. And, you realize, including an asset like [Joyce] will drive that profitable tradition ahead. I imply, Daybreak Staley doesn’t recruit frivolously. And he or she will certainly choose gamers which might be value of the legacy that they’re constructing. So I’m simply tremendous enthusiastic about that.”
All photographs might be credited to: Gatorade Participant of the 12 months / Joe Greer
